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Storage vendor Iomega has announced a new generation of its eGo Portable Hard Drives, featuring a new streamlined look and capacities up to 500 GB. The new drives are available in four different colors (varying by market), although it looks like the Ruby Red model is the one most likely to top out at 500 GB, and is also available in 250 and 320 GB capacities. Other colors seem to be available in 320 GB capacities.
Finding computer with a loud color scheme that breaks away from the normal office grey is easy. Finding a pair of speakers or headphones that match, well, not so much. Creative extended a hand to style-conscious Dell consumers on Monday with a line of specially designed speakers and headphones matched exactly to Dell’s color palette.
The company’s T10 and EP-610 headphones are now available in Jet Black, Plum Purple, Tangerine Orange, Flamingo Pink, Midnight Blue, Ruby Red and Spring Green. Those are, of course, the same colors Dell offers its flashy new Studio notebooksdesktops. and
Nikon has introduced a series of new, consumer-friendly Coolpix digital cameras meeting the needs of everyone from point-and-shoot shutterbugs to advanced photographers with more demanding needs—plus a new high-end DSLR camera for the truly serious photo crowd.
Each of Nikon’s new Coolpix cameras utilize the company’s Expeed image processing, and are available in a variety of fashion-friendly colors. “We understand that consumer electronics are now becoming fashion accessories so we are excited to offer the new Coolpix cameras in exciting and ultra-cool colors,” says Nikon general manager for marketing Bill Giordano, in a statement. “Not only do these cameras offer superior styling and elegant design, they also offer the extraordinary imaging abilities that are hallmarks of Nikon products.”
Back in April, Redmond software giant Microsoft announced it would be taking on Adobe’s market-dominated Flash technology with Silverlight, a new interactive platform for delivering "rich media experiences" across browsers and platforms. Today, Microsoft released version 1.0 of its Silverlight browser plug-in , and has announced it will be working with Novell to offer support for Linux.
"Our expectations for compelling, immersive experiences on the Web are increasing daily," said Microsoft’s chief software architect Ray Ozzie, in a statement. "With today’s release of Silverlight 1.0, we’re making it possible for developers and designers to deliver to individuals the kind of high-def experiences they crave by integrating data and services in rich and unique ways."
All five phones are for the European market only.
Philips 162
The Philips 162 incorporates all the basic communication features required from a mobile phone, which will appeal to a wide range of users. Young and old will find it easy to handle thanks to its icon-based menu, large color display, navigation key and raised keypad. It comes in four trendy colors with a range of embedded polyphonic ring tones to accommodate every taste.
The success of the handheld console continues apace this Christmas, with the GBA occupying a comfortable second place behind the PS2 in terms of unit sales in the UK, and showing no sign of the year-on-year sales decline which has afflicted most other consoles.
Nintendo is keen to promote the system as an ideal Christmas gift, and expects to bring the total catalogue of software available for the GBA to over 400 titles within the coming weeks. Disney Interactive’s Finding Nemo is the largest selling GBA title so far this Christmas, followed closely by Nintendo’s own Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire titles.
The new model has sold at a rate of more than 10 per minute, non-stop, since launch.
To build upon its success, Nintendo is launching new color casings. On Sept. 8, Onyx (black) and Flame (red) will join the current Platinum (silver) and Cobalt (dark blue) systems.
Since its inception in 1989, Nintendo’s Game Boy® line has become a household name as the world’s most successful and storied video game system, selling through more than 150 million units and more than one-half billion games worldwide.
The legal orders refer to sales of any items which have not been published by Nintendo in Europe – be that software or hardware – and follow on from a number of previous actions by Nintendo in the past, including the suing of CEX Games for carrying imported Nintendo products.
Only last month, the company brought legal pressure to bear on small UK-based importer TQ Games, forcing the shut-down of the operation. Neither Sony nor Microsoft has ever taken this kind of action against importers, and both companies have expressed, privately at least, that they have no plans ever to do so.
Nintendo of America Inc. announces new plans for marketing, sales and distribution of future editions of the Pokémon-e Trading Card Game (TCG) in North America. Nintendo is establishing a newdivision housed at Nintendo’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters to manage the trading card business. Pokémon USA, Inc. based in New York City, will work closely with Creatures, the Pokémon TCGdesigners, and Nintendo of America in support of the TCG in North America.
The first expansion of the Pokémon-e TCG from Nintendo will showcase all-new characters from the highly anticipated Pokémon® Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire video games which launched for Game Boy® Advanceon March 19 in North America. Nintendo adds the Pokémon-e TCG to existing e-Reader card products like Mario Party-e, Animal Crossing-e and the NES-e series.
The company plans to ship 2 million GBA SP units worldwide by the time the system has launched in all global territories at the end of this month. According to Japanese magazine publisher Enterbrain, demand for the SP remains high in Japan, and the system could have sold even more units had stock been available.
Nintendo is being careful not to reduce the number of units available for its US and European launches – which are both happening in the next eight days – by attempting to meet the huge demand in Japan, however, and has stated that although it will attempt to restock Japan as regularly as possible, it is focusing on preparations for the overseas launches at the moment.
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